What’s happening at Columbia?

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

not students at all

Ilhan Omar's daughter was arrested at Columbia. She's not a student there.

She’s a Barnard student, IIRC, which is affiliated. Back in the olden days when Columbia only admitted men, it was the women’s college attached to it.

Remember Bootsy from PW? Anyone who has been to a NY piano party knows him. He used to be a prof there.

[George K]

Yeah, it's whataboutism, but...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1783964668987609379.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

[jon-nyc]

It’s also not about Columbia or any other institution in the news right now over the issue.

It seems to be an example of outgroup homogeneity bias:

Person A: I believe X
Person B: I believe !X

Person C You guys are hypocrites

[89th]

The college left yearns to be part of a 1968 college protest level movement. One day they’ll grow up.

[jon-nyc]

You’re more optimistic than I am.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

At Ohio State yesterday 36 were arrested. 20 were not students at all. Folks, these are paid agitators.

Paid by the far Left. Agitation, destabilization, trying to influence votes.

We've seen this before.

[George K]

@Jolly said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

We've seen this before.

Chicago's gonna be a hoot in August.

[Jolly]

I think that was more organic. I've got the feeling much of the current situation is bought and paid for.

[Mik]

In 1968 American kids were dying in Vietnam. Gazans are dying primarily because they supported, directly or indirectly, genocidal maniacs who see the deaths as fodder for their hatred. They love their grudges more than their children. There’s no legitimate comparison.

[George K]

@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

In 1968 American kids were dying in Vietnam. Gazans are dying primarily because they supported, directly or indirectly, genocidal maniacs who see the deaths as fodder for their hatred. They love their grudges more than their children. There’s no legitimate comparison.

I'm not drawing a comparison between the motivations of the two groups. Clearly they are different, as you point out.

Simply saying that if you think the mayhem at the universities is something, just you wait.

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

The college left yearns to be part of a 1968 college protest level movement. One day they’ll grow up.

That used to be true. It's what the boomers did.

But you tend to grow up when you've a stake in something. Very much unlike boomers, today's kids grow up with dwindling job prospects, lower marriage rates, later marriages for those who marry at all, far fewer who have children, and no reasonable possibility of owning a home.

Bootstrap platitudes don't really cut it.

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

Enact Sharia law on campus. Just on the protest area…

[jon-nyc]

@Aqua-Letifer said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

… and no reasonable possibility of owning a home.

So when the boomers and gen Xers die the homes will remain empty?

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

… and no reasonable possibility of owning a home.

So when the boomers and gen Xers die the homes will remain empty?

Around here, they're taken over by companies, converted to AirBnBs or some other nonsense that equates to not a new family owning them.

Show me numbers that it's not much harder now to own a home in terms of availability, mortgages, cost of living and income.

[jon-nyc]

It’s harder but the idea of ‘no reasonable expectation’ for an entire generation seems rather impossible.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

It’s harder but the idea of ‘no reasonable expectation’ for an entire generation seems rather impossible.

I think it's silly for anyone younger to expect it so I'm sticking with my assessment.

[Copper]

The next big war should solve most of these problems.

[George K]

[George K]

4:30 AM at UCLA...